April 2012
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“Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?”
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Herman Melville in Moby-Dick, quoted by American Roulette. The natural state of the soul: an open independence, depth; the wild winds of heaven and earth alike want to wreck her on trivia, occupy her with tedium: “news — the froth & scum of the eternal sea,” and “all that is transitory [and is therefore] but a symbol.”
Leisure: the form of reposed reflection in which the soul can recover independence, “that stillness that is the necessary preparation for accepting reality.” Most of what I spend my “free time” —ostensibly but not leisure— doing: chilling out on the slavish shore, cluttering my mind, yoking it to technopoly’s values, the market’s values. The soul’s sea has its own trash gyre.
(via mills)
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“how can someone inconsistant mess up so consistantly?”
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